Source: The Independent
Data on the conflict in Syria - UNHCR
Analysis on Syrian Refugee Settlement Clinic Locations with R
Data source: World Development Indicators
GDP in billion Euro
Social index - Proportion of social benefits recipients in Berlin
Source: Tagesspiegel
… is relevant to get an overview of current developments
… is relevant to understand circumstances.
Source: Eric Fischer
Source: Touristiness
Based on tourist pictures uploaded on panoramio
Source: The New York Times
The target is to visualize social aspects in maps.
More examples
I want to….
Every participant should present his/her own maps.
Source: Website with city maps
Source: orangesmile
Five departments - Survey Design and Methodology
Monitoring Society and Social Change
Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Computational Social Science
Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
GESIS is:
Infrastructure Services for social sciences
over 250 employees at three sites (Mannheim, Cologne)
GESIS offers:
Consulting for research projects in all phases
Research based services
Consulting and research on …
R is the leading tool for statistics, data analysis, and machine learning. It is more than a statistical package; itÂ’s a programming language, so you can create your own objects, functions, and packages.
A big number of (very specific) packages:
R can be used as geographic information systems (GIS)
R and qgis
Virgilio Gómez-Rubio - Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
Because it is possible to create nice graphics:
https://github.com/Japhilko/GeoData
If you are interested in what is behind the scenes:
Thomas Girke - Programming in R
Use Reference cards, plot them and have them next to your computer
I will try to keep it simple and provide lots of resources.
Click here to download R for Windows.
R for other platforms (Linux and Mac OS) is available under:
Source: R-programming